Here are the Week 3 Ontario-Honda Section V Football offensive and defensive players of the week, which are selected based on the input of coaches.

The Democrat and Chronicle staff has no input on the player of the week or year awards:

OFFENSE

Will Mahar, No. 5, hopes to kick at a Football Bowl Subdivision team in college. He has a scholarship offer and other chances to walk-on. KRIS J. MURANTE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Class AA: Bam Akinniyi (Webster Schroeder). Senior running back romped for 220 yards with four touchdowns during a win over Gates Chili. He averaged 11.6 yards a carry, also caught a touchdown pass and returned a kick off 43 yards.

Class A: Will Mahar (McQuaid): The senior did a little of everything for the Knights, including kick a 52-yard field goal to win the game against Edison. It was one of his five field goals, plus he set up the winning play with a 42-yard reception.

Class B: Phil Tack (Newark): Newark is 3-0 and tied for first in the Finger Lakes East Division after a 33-19 win over Wayne. Tack completed 7 of 19 passes for 179 yards with a touchdown, plus ran for four touchdowns and 86 yards on 23 carries.

Class C: Matt Perry (Attica): Senior running back broke three school records during Attica’s Genesee Region league win over Pembroke. He scored six touchdowns, as he gained 288 yards on 17 carries. He is the school’s all-time leading rusher.

Class DD: Kurtis Haut (Caledonia-Mumford). The Red Raiders handled Avon 35-13 after the senior quarterback ran for 274 yards with three touchdowns on 19 carries. Haut also had a touchdown pass during the Livingston County Division II matchup. Cal-Mum is 2-0 league, 3-0 overall.

Class D: Christian Hollister (Perry). A junior listed at 5-6 and 140 pounds, Hollister ran for 163 yards with three touchdowns, including one for 97 yards, during a win over York. He also caught three passes, two for touchdowns.

DEFENSE

Class AA: Charlie Rist (Aquinas). Received the award for the second consecutive week after seven solo tackles, with an interception and fumble recovery versus Ursuline (Ohio) from his inside linebacker position.

Class A: Trent Egenlauf (Spencerport). Senior linebacker, who is listed at 6-foot-1 and 210 pounds, forced a key fumble and was in on 15 tackles during a 27-14 Monroe County Division II win over Irondequoit.

Class C: Byran Quayle (Marcus Whitman) Senior defensive end made 14 solo tackles, including four for losses, with five sacks as Marcus Whitman edged Lyons, 3-0 in Finger Lakes West Division football.

Class DD: John Jackson (Bishop Kearney). Sophomore linebacker John Jackson helped the Kings improve to 2-1 when he made 13 tackles, including six solo, during a win over Warsaw. Jackson also had a sack.

Class D: Cal Felker (Clyde-Savannah). The Golden Eagles remained in first-place on top of the Finger Lakes West with a win over Mynderse, which included 13 solo tackles, a forced fumble and interception by the senior linebacker.

Thomas Bryant, the 6-foot-9, 200-pound forward who helped lead Bishop Kearney to last season’s Class AA state basketball championship, appears headed to Huntington St. Joseph Prep, a school in Huntington, W. Va. Bryant, who’ll be a junior, did not return phone calls on Thursday night and the news, which emerged on Twitter from recruiting analysts, came as a surprise to Kearney coach Jon Boon. But Rob Fulford, the coach who started Huntington Prep in 2009, tweeted a welcome to Bryant (see below).

Huntington is part of St. Joseph Central Catholic High, but bills itself as a basketball-focused wing of the school. Most recently, Huntington has helped hone top recruits such as 6-7 forward Andrew Wiggins, a freshman at Kansas who many think could go No. 1 in the 2014 NBA Draft, and Gorgui Dieng, a center who helped lead Louisville to last year’s NCAA title before leaving for the NBA. Bryant is one of the most sought after recruits in his graduating class (2015). On his ESPN.com profile, Syracuse, Villanova and West Virginia are listed among the highest-profile programs that have offered scholarships to the long-armed Bryant. He was a third-team All-State pick as a sophomore last season after averaging 13.7 points. He also averaged 12 rebounds and four blocks. His mobility, shooting range and ability to handle the ball are a rare blend that make him attractive to major-college coaches. Earlier this summer he also won a gold medal in June while playing for the USA Under-16 National Team in the 2013 FIBA Americas U-16 Championship.

KEARNEY GIRLS PLAYER COMMITS: Emmanuella Edoka, a 6-foot-1 forward for Kearney’s Class C state champion girls basketball team, has given a verbal commitment to play for Siena College, according to Kings coach Kevan Sheppard. A native of Nigeria, she’ll be a senior this coming season.

There were a few people wh0 wanted a word with Mickey Burke, but he was too tired to talk right after he crossed the finish line of the two-mile race during the New Balance National Outdoor meet last weekend.

The Rush-Henrietta junior finished that race on June 15 in Greensboro, N.C. in 9 minutes and 30/100ths of a second, good for a fourth-place finish and All-America status. Mike DeMay, the coach at Rush-Henrietta, said that Burke’s time converts to 8:57.17 in the 3,200 and claims that it is a state record for juniors.

Burke

“Breaking nine minutes in the 3,200 is difficult,” Burke said. “I was ecstatic to do it.”

DeMay said that only two other runners in Section V history have broken the nine-minute barrier in the 3,200.

“They have to convince me that I’ll be alright on my own,” Burke said.

Burke also teamed with Brennan Root, Josh Wray and Pat Shenal for a third-place and another All-America finish in the distance medley relay. Root ran the 1,200-meter leg, Wray the 400, Shenal the 800 and Burke the 1,600.

Burke was presented an award for the most outstanding performance among New York State athletes.

“This was my first year at outdoor nationals,” Burke said. “It was great. With the two All-American (finishes), you can’t ask for anything better than that.”

Bryant

Kearney’s Bryant goes international: Bishop Kearney basketball forward Thomas Bryant is the owner of a gold medal at the end of his sophomore year in high school.

Bryant trained with USA Basketball’s 16-under national team last summer in Colorado Springs. The FIBA Americas Championships was his first international tournament. He averaged 10 points, 7.2 rebounds, 3.6 blocked shots in five games. Bryant played an average of about 15 minutes.

Recognition for tennis coach: Bill Nealon, the varsity coach at Our Lady of Mercy in Brighton, is the United States Professional Tennis Association’s Eastern Division High School Coach of the Year.

Nealon was presented the award during a USPTA conference in Mount Kisco, Westchester County and is a finalist for the national award announced in September. He was an assistant coach at McQuaid Jesuit in Brighton this spring.

Off-season track meet to circle: The United States Track and Field Niagara Association Championships, a qualifier for the next Junior Olympics, is Sunday, June 23 at Hilton.

The meet begins at noon, with competitors ages 8 to 18, including Section V high school athletes.

When Robert Zayas worked in New Mexico, there was a growing question about fair placement of charter schools inside high school athletics in that state.

Zayas, the New York State Public High School Athletic Association executive director since September, is certain that it will be a topic here, especially in and around the state’s larger cities where charter schools are appearing.

“It is very similiar to what we had in New Mexico,” Zayas said. “It’s just a new issue because it’s a new type of school.

“This wasn’t an issue maybe 10 years ago. We’ll have issues that we can’t even imagine 10 years now.”

There is thought that private schools have a competitive advantage over public schools. Do you think charter schools are in the same category? Let me know what you think at jamesj@democratandchronicle.com or on twitter @jjDandC.

Junior golf: The International Junior Golf Tour makes a stop at Ravenwood Golf Club in Victor, for a two-day, 36-hole tournament with three divisions, May 3-4.

The tournament includes girls 19 years old and under, boys 15-19 , boys under 14.

Call Ravenwood at 888-936-5327 for more information.

Look ahead: Bishop Kearney guard and Fordham University men’s basketball recruit Antwoine Anderson said he was told that he will be roomates with Jon Severe, the 2013 New York State Mr. Basketball.

Severe was named the state’s top player by the Basketball Coaches Association of New York.

STATE CHAMP AQUINAS SOCCER TEAMS HONORED APRIL 26

Bishop Kearney’s big feat last weekend – the boys and girls basketball teams each won state championships, the first time that has ever happened in that sport in Section V and first time statewide for hoops since 1981 – wasn’t a once-in-a-lifetime accomplishment, but the Kings’ accomplishment was indeed rare. But Section V has seen comparable feats before with the most recent being Aquinas soccer in 2006 and Honeoye Falls-Lima cross country in 2001, according to former D&C reporter, John Moriello, who is president of the New York State Sportswriters Association. Coincidentally, the first Section V program to achieve the same-season double is about to be honored. Aquinas announced this week that its NYSPHSAA boys and girls soccer championship teams from the 2000 season are among those slated for induction in the school’s Hall of Fame on Friday, April 26 at the Hyatt Regency. Others being inducted are John Della Villa (Class of 1948), Donna Enright (’87) and Tara Berardi Masci (’98) in the athletics category; Dennis Sadler (’62) and the Rev. Al Cylwicki in the meritorious service category; and the William G. Shaheen (’72) family.

Tickets for the banquet, which also honors the school’s senior male and female scholar-athletes of the year, can be reserved by calling Aquinas at (585) 254-2020, ext. 1064. Tickets are $60 for adults and $35 for current Aquinas students. A table of 10 is $550. The 2000 girls soccer team was coached by the late Gary Page and included All-Greater Rochester Player of the Year Sarah Elnicky as well as AGR first-team pick Erin McConnell. The boys were coached by Joe LaPietra and had their own pair of first-team all-stars Tyler Ferrera and Eric Lauricella. Berardi’s final season with the Little Irish came three years before the 2000 team kicked off its run of three straight state championships, but the four-year starting goalie’s selection in 1995 launched the girls team’s still-active streak of 18 years with at least one first-team AGR player. A first-team all-state as a senior after posting 15 shutouts, Berardi played for West Virginia University and was an assistant for the Section V champion Brighton girls last fall. She previously taught and coached at Aquinas and Monroe Community College.

The matchups for state tournament quarterfinals in girls basketball, also known as the Far West Regionals, are set and I expect Section V to do quite well against Section VI again this season. Why? Because even though I feel overall the Rochester area is a little down as far as talent, Section V usually does well against Buffalo-area teams and I think that should continue. Based on my own research of the past decade, Section V has gone 38-11 in the quarterfinal round. As Bill Parcells used to say, you are what your record says you are.

Bishop Kearney’s Chinonso Obokoh, the 6-foot-10 center headed to Syracuse University, has been selected to play in the regional game before the All-American contest of the Jordan Brand Classic on April 13 in Brooklyn. The game will be at the Barclays Center, home of the NBA’s New Jersey Nets, at 5:30 p.m., preceding the 8 p.m. 12th annual All-American game that will be televised by ESPN2 and feature another SU recruit, point guard Tyler Ennis of Newark, N.J. The regional game pits top players from the New York metropolitan area in a “City vs. Suburbs” showdown. Obokoh has been chosen for the “city” side, said his guardian, Kevan Sheppard.

Obokoh and the seventh-seeded Kings play in the 6:30 p.m. Section V Class AA1 semifinals against No. 6 Rush-Henrietta on Thursday at Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial. Top-seeded Webster Schroeder faces No. 5 Penfield after that.

Jeff DiVeronica has covered Section V for the Democrat and Chronicle since 1994. A native of Canastota, N.Y., where he played soccer, basketball and baseball, “Devo” began his career at the Chillicothe (Ohio) Gazette before returning to Rochester in 1993. The St. John Fisher College graduate also covers the Rochester Rhinos soccer team and Syracuse University basketball. He founded the Canandaigua National Bank High School Sports Show, which airs Saturdays at noon on WHTK-AM (1280), in 2003. E-mail Jeff at jdiveron@DemocratandChronicle.com.Follow:@RocDevo

James Johnson has covered Section V for the Democrat and Chronicle since 1996. The St. John Fisher College and Edison graduate also has provided features and game stories tied to NASCAR, professional golf, baseball, hockey, boxing and tennis. His career began in 1995 at the Press-Sun Bulletin in Binghamton, where he helped cover Section IV high school sports. E-mail James at jamesj@DemocratandChronicle.com.Follow:@jjDandC